"Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said she also has recently met or traded phone calls with several members of the New York delegation. All have been welcoming, and full of advice on how to prepare for Washington.

"It really is like high school orientation," Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. "It's like you pick your committees the way you pick your courses. And people ask, like, little logistical things like, 'where you going to live?'"

No decision there yet, she said. "Honestly, I've been so focused on today that I'm not trying to count my chickens before they're hatched."

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said the transition period will be "very unusual, because I can't really take a salary. I have three months without a salary before I'm a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real." She said she saved money before leaving her job at the restaurant, and planned accordingly with her partner. "We're kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day, but I've really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January."

So? She said she planned accordingly for it. Or are only rich people supposed to run for Congress?

I don't expect a congressperson to be rich, but not ****ing broke either. If you can't manage your own money to the point that you don't have rent for 3 months, then maybe, just maybe, you aren't qualified to be legislating fiscal and/or budgetary policy that will directly affect 300+ million other people.

What do you want to bet that in just a few years she will be a millionaire??

She will be. It's ironic that the liberal idea of conservatism is power and money concentrated in the hands of a few at the top of the food chain; yet the liberal desire for a socialist country will bring us exactly that.

"It really is like high school orientation," Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. "It's like you pick your committees the way you pick your courses. And people ask, like, little logistical things like, 'where you going to live?'"